TOM CHIU
107 Saint Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217; 1- 718.789.9106
tom.chiu.mc.93@aya.yale.edu ; fluxquartet@yahoo.com

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

2002 Sculpture and Nature, a special performance at the opening night of a new exhibition, entitled Sculpture and Nature, at New York's Isamu Noguchi Museum. With special guests, drone-pop guitarist David First and avant drummer Jim Pugliese.

Morphoses, a new work by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, resident choreographer of the New York City Ballet, and a world premier collaboration with soloists of the New York City Ballet. The FLUX Quartet performed String Quartet No. 1 by Gyorgy Ligeti.

String Summit, a festival showcasing new directions in string playing at The Kitchen in New York City. Featuring works by Ornette Coleman, Iannis Xenakis, and new original works by Chiu.

2001-2003 When Morty Met John... Carnegie's Weill Hall, New York City. Three-year series focusing on the friendship and music of John Cage and Morton Feldman, as well as other members of the New York School, including Earle Brown and Christian Wolff. Featured artists include Joan LaBarbara, Margaret Leng Tan, and the FLUX Quartet.

2001 Premier of Chiu's new work, eom, performed by the New York based Downtown Ensemble.

2000 Ornette Coleman, opening concert of Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival. Director and Concertmaster, Harmolodic Chamber Ensemble, in premier performance of Coleman's Freedom Symbol. New York City.

Sir John Tavener, premier appearance in America. Featured performers included the FLUX Quartet, Tallis Scholars, and Sir Paul McCartney. New York City.

1999 Red Beads, a collaboration with avant director Lee Breuer of Mabou Mines, puppeteer Basil Twist, and composer Ushio Torikai. Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2. World premier of the original, unabridged version of this six-hour masterpiece. Cooper Union, New York City.

1997-1999 Rainbow Cafe, and Starry Night, collaborations with avant choreographer Eun-Me Ahn. SoHo Joyce Theatre and Columbia's Miller Theater, New York City.

1996-1997 Artistic director and curator of Music-In-Flux, a concert series devoted to music that defies categorization. Featured artists on the series included balloon virtuoso Judy Dunaway, microtonal-electronicist Virgil Moorefield, and the FLUX Quartet, resident ensemble of the series.

1996 World premier of the Universe Symphony by Charles Ives, realized and conducted by microtonalist Johnny Reinhard. Concertmaster of the 70-piece AFMM Orchestra. Alice Tully Hall, New York City.

NOTABLE PREMIERS (World, US, European, or New York)

2002 Ornette Coleman, Trinity

Michael Byron, Awakening at the Inn of the Birds

Ileana Perez Velazquez, Duendes Alados

2001 Tom Chiu, EBITDA

Tom Chiu, eom

Judy Dunaway, For Balloon and String Quartet

Renaud Gagneux, String Quartet No. 2

John Luther Adams, In A Treeless Place, Only Snow

James MacMillan, Why Is This Night Different?

John Musto, Clarinet Sextet, with David Krakauer and

Alan Feinberg

Sir John Tavener, The Last Sleep of the Virgin

2000 Tom Chiu, Collage Series No. 1

Philip Cashian, String Quartet No. 1

Ornette Coleman, Freedom Symbol

Sir John Tavener, The Hidden Treasure

1999 Tom Chiu, Sonic Stock

Tom Chiu, Scratch and Screetch

Morton Feldman, String Quartet No. 2

Ornette Coleman, Poets and Writers

Al Giusto, Fear

1998 Virko Baley, Klytemnestra

David First, Higher Planes Drifter

Shin-Ichiro Ikebe, Bivalence II

Zhou Long, The Ineffable

1997 Lukas Foss, For Toru, in honor of Toru Takemitsu

Virgil Moorefield, The Arrival of the Crows

Claudio Spies, Coniunctim

1996 Tom Chiu, HI-A-444

Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 9

Renaud Gagneux, String Quartet No. 1

Charles Ives, Universe Symphony, realized by Johnny Reinhard

Virgil Moorefield, The Temperature in Hell is More Than Three Thousand Degrees

Roger Reynolds, Ariadne's Thread

Iannis Xenakis, Kraanerg

1995 Tom Chiu, There Goes My Hat Again, Flying

Virko Baley, Violin Concert No. 1

Johnny Reinhard, Cosmic Rays

FESTIVALS

2001-2003 When Morty Met John... Carnegie's Weill Hall, New York City.

2002 New Chamber Festival. Baltimore, MD.

2001 A Great Day In New York Lincoln Center, New York City. Six-concert festival of some fifty working composers in New York. Conceived and directed by cellist Fred Sherry.

2000 Ojai Festival Ojai, CA

Oslo Chambermusic Festival Oslo, Norway

1999 Melbourne Festival Melbourne, Australia

Numus Festival Aarhus, Denmark

1997 ISCM Music Days Seoul, Korea

1996 Mixed Messages Festival New York City

Warsaw Autumn Festival Warsaw, Poland

1996-2000 Summergarden Festival MOMA, New York City

1996-2000 AFMM's Microthons, New York City

NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLES

1996-present FLUX Quartet, founder and first violinist

1996-present Continuum

1996-present American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM)

1999-present The Group for Contemporary Music

2000-present Newband

1996-2000 Virgil Moorefield Ensemble

1997-1999 New Music Consort

1997-1998 Music From Japan

1996-1998 Composers' Ensembles at Columbia and Princeton University

DISCOGRAPHY

2002 Eric Moe, Sonnets to Orpheus & Siren Songs (Koch)

2001 Annie Gosfield, Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (Tzadik)

2000 Keith Jarrett, As Long As You're Living Yours (BMG)

1998 Zhou Long, The Ineffable, featuring the New Music Consort (Cala)

1997 Iannis Xenakis, Kraanerg, supervised by the composer (Sombient)

1997 Virgil Moorefield, The Temperature in Hell is Over Three Thousand Degrees (Tzadik)

1995 Virko Baley, Orpheus Singing, featuring Violin Concerto No. 1, with soloist Tom Chiu (Cambria)

MEDIA CREDITS

1999-present WFMU, Kenny G's Saturday Night Toe Jamz

1999 NPR, Performance Today

1996-present WNYC, Around New York, New Sounds

1997, 2000 Columbia's WKCR

1985 Twentieth Century Fox, The Man With One Red Shoe, starring Tom Hanks

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2002 Residency, Dartmouth College at Hanover, NH

Student readings, composition classes, lecture demonstrations.

2001 Guest Lecturer/Performer, Music Technology

Seminar at Juilliard, New York City

Collaboration with balloon virtuoso Judy Dunaway, funded in part by a grant from the American Composers Forum.

Residency, Centre College at Danville, KY

String masterclass, open rehearsals, and student readings with a composition seminar. Also conducted an open forum with a core undergraduate class on aesthetics.

2000 Residency, SUNY Fredonia at Fredonia, NY

String masterclass, composition master class, and open rehearsals.

Residency, College of William and Mary at Williamsburg,, VA

Student readings, open forum with music appreciation class.

1999 Residency, Rice University at Houston, TX

String masterclass, open rehearsals, and student readings.

1995-2000 Guest Faculty, SummerTrios

1994-1996 Teaching Assistant, Music History (Juilliard)

EDUCATION

2001 Doctor of Musical Arts, The Juilliard School

Violin studies with Cho-Liang Lin. Chamber music with Robert Mann. Doctoral Dissertation: Composer-Performers and Their Ensembles: A Survey of Five New York Musicians, Joel Sachs, advisor. Lecture Recital: Transfixing Sound World: The String Music of Morton Feldman. Charles Petschek Prize for outstanding leadership.

1995 Master of Music, The Juilliard School

Violin studies with Cho-Liang Lin. Chamber music with Earl Carlyss, Joel Sachs, and Samuel Sanders. M. & E. Cohen, Teplitsky Memorial, and Fritz Kreisler scholarships.

1993 Bachelor of Arts, Yale College (music, chemistry)

Violin studies with Erick Friedman. Wrexham Prize, presented to the outstanding undergraduate in music.

William Waite Concerto Winner, soloist with Yale Symphony Orchestra. Music theory with Allen Forte and Robert Morgan. Music history with Claude Palisca.

SELECTED REVIEWS

(as soloist, improvisor, or composer-performer)

2002 Smith, Steve. "World on a String: Five Young Ensembles Bring Chamber Music Into the 21st Century at the Kitchen." Time Out New York, 10 January 2002.

2001 Kozinn, Allan. "Forget the Violin and Keyboard;

Listen to the Plumbing." The New York Times, 28 June 2001.

2000 Swed, Mark. "Sense and Nonsense at Ojai Festival." Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2000.

Ratliff, Ben. "Coleman's Language, Embracing the World." The New York Times, 3 June 2000.

Giddins, Gary. "The Philosopher King Brings Himself To It: Freed Jazz." The Village Voice, 31 May 2000.

1999 Gann, Kyle. "Balancing the Audio and Visual: Getting Your Two Senses' Worth." The Village Voice, 14 September 1999.

Griffiths, Paul. "Far Beyond Soundtracks: Sounds Meld with Movies." The New York Times, 26 August 1999.

1998 Dunning, Jennifer. "Wondrous Creatures Wander in Small Enigmatic Worlds: Starry Night." The New York Times, 7 December 1998.

1997 Kozinn, Allan. "Showcase for Immigrants as Composers." The New York Times, 1 September 1997.

1996 Ross, Alex. "Linking New Sounds to Old Formulas in an Eccentric Atmosphere." The New York Times, 13 January 1996.

1995 Smith, Ken. "Horses for Courses." The Strad Magazine, September 1995.

Gann, Kyle. "The Uptown Continent." The Village Voice, 16 May 1995.

(with the FLUX Quartet)

2002 Smith, Tim. "Dissonance Strikes Chord With Listeners." The Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2002.

Smith Tim. "Striking String Pieces Fulfill Festival's Pledge." The Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2002.

2001 Gann, Kyle. "Credo in Unum Tonum: Why was 'Beyond Words' Different From All Other New York Concerts?" The Village Voice, 24 April 2001.

Jensen, Chris. "State of Flux: Tom Chiu Talks About the New Zephyr Concert at The Met." The Local Planet, 19 April 2001.

Tommasini, Anthony. "A Carnegie Connection, Then and Now." The New York Times, 13 February, 2001.

2000 McLellan, Joseph. "FLUX Quartet: A Dazzling Night at the Coolidge." The Washington Post, 1 November 2000.

Pareles, Jon. "Sermons Punctuate An Evening of Tavener." The New York Times, 8 May 2000.

1999 Ward, Charles. "FLUX Gives Modern Selections A Fresh Sound." Houston Chronicle, 5 November 1999.

Ross, Alex. "Feldman's Towering Quartet II." The New Yorker, 1 November 1999.

Marshall, Jonathan. "FLUX Quartet: More Than Just Hot Air." INPRESS Magazine, 20 October 1999.

Rose, Eliot. "Winning the Minimalist Marathon." The Yale Herald, 15 October 1999.

Tommasini, Anthony. "Concert for the Record Books." The New York Times, 8 October 1999.

O'Donnell, Sophie. "Melbourne Festival: Music in a State of Flux." The Age, 1 October 1999.

Tommasini, Anthony. "The New Faces of New Music: Hope and Dedication Propels the FLUX Quartet." The New York Times, 18 February 1999.

1998 Tommasini, Anthony. "Grinding Gears Join Ot